Colonel Blethen’s president was a gentleman named Kane—bear his name in mind, if you can, as we shall have some adventures with him at the University of North Dakota. President Kane accepted the chimes, and a solemn ceremony of dedication was performed—with the students distributing handbills of protest on the outskirts of the crowd! If you consider the coincidence of Times, chimes and crimes, you will understand that the young men were literally driven to writing verses. The ones they made strike me as exceptionally good, so I quote two stanzas. ALL IS WELL Recommended to friends of the University of Washington as a suitable Dedication Ode for the Blethen Chimes: Clang the Chimes—clang the Chimes, Help to glorify The Times; And the fame to which it’s heir —All the sins that “dailies” dare— Swell aloud from college walls; Peal through all the college halls. Slander’s pence and scandal’s dimes Here transform to silver chimes That shall tell, as they swell, All is well; all—is—well.... Champion of the den and sty! Daily forty-page-long-lie! Yet, despite its thousand crimes, Praise The Times; clang its Chimes. Let them charm the ear of Youth; Let them swell its jeers at Truth And in Truth’s own court proclaim Gold is power; brass is fame; Watch The Times go on and sell All the news that’s fit—(for h—). All is well; All—is—well. The protest had been orderly and dignified—the only violence being committed by one of the regents, who had dragged a student about, trying to tear his papers away from him and denouncing him for what he was doing. The student body was thoroughly roused, and more than seven hundred signed a letter endorsing the protest. Blethen had come on to the campus to make a speech, and the students had heckled him and as one of them told me “had him on the run.” The university authorities now barred all save invited speakers, and the president ordained that the teaching of progressive ideas at the university must cease, and there was to be no student criticism of president or regents, or their acts. The whole controversy was reviewed by the regents, who endorsed what the president had done.